Correct me if I'm wrong, but the epilogue seems to work as well if read from the last phrase to the first (Let's begin at the end. The year is 3053, and I've seen it all…). Is this a coincidence or it was mean to be this way, as the last phrase suggests?

To clarify (months after the fact), Rat's Nest was a Magic: The Gathering preconstructed deck that contained the immensely overpowered card Umezawa's Jitte, which was worth far more than the deck's MSRP, making it very sought after.